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fufarawI just dumped all the wastebaskets into the kitchen trash and bagged it up, cleared the garbage out of the freezer*, retrieved the trap I heard go last night, plus wee mousie corpse, and got one of the smaller bags OH keeps for freezer and other garbage and bagged that, too, and...ew. The bags are scented. Whhuff. I hauled it all down to the dumpster, came back, washed my hands and made lunch, sat down to eat and every time I lifted hand to mouth...what's that weird smell?
Oh. Trash bag scent. I've washed my hands three times now, and it won't go away. I'ma have to make some cheap instant coffee to soak my hands in, briefly, or break out the vanilla extract. Ew, ew, ew. Why do things have to have such awful artificial scents? Air "fresheners", dryer sheets, laundry detergents, sanitary pads? trash bags?
*What do you mean you don't freeze your garbage? We don't have a local composting place that's not miles away, and our HOA frowns on household composters. Our disposal is wonky, and we actually shop pretty responsibly and don't have a lot of organic waste, so we put a bread bag in the freezer and throw garbage in there until it's full, then take it out. No smelly in the house.
ETA: Just to clarify, we recycle plastic, glass, aluminum, and cardboard. What constitutes "trash" is non-recyclable paper and plastics, metal things like staples, bits of wire and string, etc. Food-related organics like vegetable and fruit peels, cores, eggshells, meat scraps and bones constitute "garbage," and we try to shop responsibly so there's little of this type of food waste to deal with. Forgotten lab experiments from the fridge are also garbage, occasionally with their container. Also, apple peelings and cores are "garbage," because left alone they decompose. Orange peels go in the trash because they dry out, get less messy as they do so, and give off a pleasant scent.
Oh. Trash bag scent. I've washed my hands three times now, and it won't go away. I'ma have to make some cheap instant coffee to soak my hands in, briefly, or break out the vanilla extract. Ew, ew, ew. Why do things have to have such awful artificial scents? Air "fresheners", dryer sheets, laundry detergents, sanitary pads? trash bags?
*What do you mean you don't freeze your garbage? We don't have a local composting place that's not miles away, and our HOA frowns on household composters. Our disposal is wonky, and we actually shop pretty responsibly and don't have a lot of organic waste, so we put a bread bag in the freezer and throw garbage in there until it's full, then take it out. No smelly in the house.
ETA: Just to clarify, we recycle plastic, glass, aluminum, and cardboard. What constitutes "trash" is non-recyclable paper and plastics, metal things like staples, bits of wire and string, etc. Food-related organics like vegetable and fruit peels, cores, eggshells, meat scraps and bones constitute "garbage," and we try to shop responsibly so there's little of this type of food waste to deal with. Forgotten lab experiments from the fridge are also garbage, occasionally with their container. Also, apple peelings and cores are "garbage," because left alone they decompose. Orange peels go in the trash because they dry out, get less messy as they do so, and give off a pleasant scent.
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Date: 2018-04-18 07:25 am (UTC)We don't take out the garbage but maybe once a week, we don't actually have a lot of peelings or scraps. And it's silly to walk the block to the dumpster with a handful of carrot shavings and shells from two eggs. But it gets a little smelly in a day or two, so we just keep a bread bag in the freezer and throw in the coffee grounds, banana skins, etc. and put it in the trash bag and take it to the dumpster once a week or so. It works.